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Hello everyone, I wanted to know whether I am the only one who's experienced very low (less than 5%) load factors for some of my flights and low load factors in general? (my best flight in the past 24 hours had a 60% load, followed by another with 47% and then 26%)
Granted some of these routes merit load factors around or bellow 75%, especially if flown multiple times a day (such as Cordoba-Bahia Blanca) but receiving a load factor of 1% on the busiest domestic route in Argentina (Cordoba-Buenos Aires) is frankly plain wrong.
Could it have to do with the fact that these flights are all out of Jorge Newberry and not the international airport of Buesnos Aires (Ministro Pistarini)? If so I think the demand formula should be adjusted given some smaller airports (such as London Stansted, Paris Orly, Chicago Midway etc.) are still very popular and busy given they belong to large cities.
Otherwise I don't really know what I am doing wrong...
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Watch for runway lengths - if the runway is below the length required for the aircraft, it will remove passengers from the flight to save weight and get it below the target weight to be able to land/take off from that particular airport. (currently the game does not simulate fuel usage in-flight - so runway required for landing is the same as takeoff. I'm going to change that at some point)
Also watch the departure/arrival times. Anything between 1am to 5am will cause a drop in demand.
AEP vs EZE shouldn't have any effect, if anything AEP gives slightly more demand because it has higher annual PAX.
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Having verified the runway length I'm in the clear (the Embraer 175 meets the requirement for all of my airports). Furthermore none of my flights have a departure time between 1am and 5am.
Instead, I looked at the route research and found something very particular. With all of my routes such for instance AEP to NQN (Neuquen), it stated I was performing a ridiculous number of flights per week (98 weekly flights) even though according to my routes schedule I was only performing three flights a day, so 21 a week.
Could this be the source of the problem, where the demand factors is falsely adjusted for my supposed "98 weekly flights" even though I am only flying 21 flights a week from AEP to NQN?
Otherwise I don't understand the issue, as everything on my management end seems to be in order...
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Yep that would cause it. It's the route duplication issue. At this time I don't know what causes that to happen but it's started to happen a lot more frequently than it used to (or maybe we're just noticing it more). See issue #112:
https://issuetracker.airlineenterprise.c...issues/112
So because there is so much false supply it lowers demand significantly.
It's strange because when the flights are duplicated, they only show up once on the active flights/scheduled flights page. But then when they land, it puts all of them into your flight history/transaction ledger.
I've been chasing it for months and still can't figure out why it occasionally does this.
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Hmm, that makes a lot more sense now!
What I find strange though is that every single one of my routes has been hit by this issue, and this was clearly not the case before the massive update and airline reset...
Anyways thanks for clarifying the issue, I hope we'll be able to solve it swiftly as it does render my operations for now completely crippled and useless (Literally I have lost 2 million dollars as a result!).
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That's unfortunate. Same happened to me, but luckily only some of my routes were effected. I ended up having to invest in new routes. I suggest you try the same.
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(05-24-2018, 07:32 PM)Frenchie Wrote: Hmm, that makes a lot more sense now!
What I find strange though is that every single one of my routes has been hit by this issue, and this was clearly not the case before the massive update and airline reset...
Anyways thanks for clarifying the issue, I hope we'll be able to solve it swiftly as it does render my operations for now completely crippled and useless (Literally I have lost 2 million dollars as a result!).
Yeah, even my airline is getting the duplication error for a few days in a row now. At least that is something, usually everyone else reports the error and I never experience it
I have protection in place against route double-scheduling so I don't understand how it's getting around that and scheduling more than once anyway.
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